Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. He immigrated to Canada in the early seventies and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. Norris teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Maine. Bruce Whiteman is a Canadian poet and writer living in Los Angeles. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Visible Stars: New and Selected Poems (1995), Tristia, and XXIV Love Poems (2002). He regularly writes reviews for Canadian and American journals, and his scholarly books include Lasting Impressions: A Short History of English Publishing in Quebec (1994) and J.E.H. Macdonald (1995).
